R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …

, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within … the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared … China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no support from central …

The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …

technical innovation and systemic change in the energy sector is largely induced by need, and restrained by potentially large …